Weekend Game Balls

Excellent posting while I was absent...(loved the Zombie review Duke, although I think you're wrong about Dawn of the Dead 2.0, they're not smarter, just faster, like modern day NFL)...anyway, I wanted to start the week out and give out some game balls from the end of last week and the weekend:

First, I want to start with the Montlake 11 and especially Dan Howell and the Husky D. A week after attending the funeral of his father he returns an interception for the go-ahead lead in the best Husky win since beating Michigan almost 30 years ago (actually just 4 years ago, it just seems that way). The Husky D was continually asked to defend the red-zone with the Bruins beggining drives on the 9 and 6 during the first half and only coming away with field goal after field goal. In the second half they showed some classic Husky pride with only allowing 3 first downs and a field goal that came off of a 63 yard punt return. I'm not ready to declare them Rose Bowl champs quite yet, but the fog created by the culture of losing is begining to lift off of Lake Washington.

Second, to the all-of-a-sudden one dimensional Chawk offense, which spells good things for Hasselback owners, but potentially dangerous things later on. An offense built on play-action will find less and less open receivers if the run is not respected. Alexander is playing with so much fear of injury right now that he might as well just go on the shelf for a couple of weeks so this offense can develop a running game without him. The actual game ball for the day goes to the Hammer and the rest of the Hawk D, which will be needed in order replace a time consuming rushing attack.

Best line of the morning came from Hugh B.L. Millen, when asked about the comeback in the second half: "What do you do after an orgasm (42-3)? Go to Sleep" (that quote gets a game ball as well)

Prez #42 William Jeff Clinton for taking a weak Fox News setup with Chris Wallace and actually calling out the hack-network for it's weak attempt to corner a man who's IQ is about 100 points higher than anyone asking the questions. (Oh yeah...bin Laden is bigger than trying to pin on just one-guy, but thanks for playing ABC and Fox)

Finally...I want to give a shout out to global warming...for allowing me to paint and seal my deck during my time-off...as of Thursday morning I was cursing the Alaskan-jet stream, but the next three days more than made up for it...thank you and f' you Al Gore, you manbearpig...I'm cereal...